3.94 AVERAGE

emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced
emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Complex family drama at its best.

Four siblings, Junior, Mance, Cece and Tokey, come together when their father, King passes away. The Kingdom in Diggs, NC - the ancestral home of the Solomon's with over 200 acres of land is now in limbo and could possibly be taken from underneath them.

Each sibling has a different point of view in the narrative, and each sibling is hiding their own secret. Power, money, abuse and blackmail run rampant but the heart of this book is FAMILY and really, to me, Long After We Are Gone explores the central theme of how damaging family secrets can be for generations.

The book does a wonderful job of educating the reader issue of Heir Property Law and the historical significance of these issues without being overly pedantic. The prose is beautiful, haunting, and emotive. Loved it.